Research Blog #3


1. Holland, Ashley. “How Residency Affects The Grades of Undergraduate Students”. The College at Brockport. May 2014. http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1084&context=honors

Author Ashely Holland conducts a research using 946 freshman and seniors and compares their ages, transfer status, and residence. Comparing their residence, age, and transfer status Holland researches how on-campus students earned higher grades, than those that commuted.


2. Ohio State University. “Comparing On-Campus, Off-Campus, and Commuter Students”. Center for the Study of Student Life. September 2014. http://cssl.osu.edu/posts/documents/comparing-on-campus-off-campus-and-commuter-students.pdf

The Ohio State University conducted research on the number of commuting students, and their involvement in student organizations as well as their reasons as well as their sense of belonging on campus. Since I plan on comparing the psychological affects of dorming vs. commuting in students.


3. Webber, Krylow, and Zhang. “Does Involvement Really Matter? Indicators of College Student Success and Satisfaction.” Journal of College Student Development. November 2013.
http://ihe.uga.edu/uploads/publications/faculty/Does_Involvement_Really_Matter.pdf

Authors Webber, Krylow, and Zhang conduct research on if increased student engagement in a variety of curricular and extra curricular activities significantly contribute to cumulative GPA. I will use this article in my research because it corresponds to the data of students who commute and their success in school as a result.

Comments

  1. Michael GoellerOctober 13, 2017 at 12:00 PM

    It would be good to look for more sources like the last one, which is a peer reviewed article that engages with academic terms and ideas and can aid your own analysis. The first two are interesting and offer some good material, but they are not as strong as academic sources. The first is a student undergraduate honors thesis. It looks well done, and might be worth looking at in comparison to other data, but is not a traditional academic source. The second is some interesting data from Ohio State, but likely collected by the housing people themselves and not necessarily subject to peer review. All are usable for your project, but look for some more academic sources like the last one.

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